What It Was Like for Doctors, Nurses at Everett Hospital to Treat First Novel Coronavirus Patient in US
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Two hours after a call, the biohazard team had erected the isolation unit, reports Ryan Blethen SPOTLIGHT: Dr George Diaz, Division Chief of Infectious Diseases, right, and Robin Addison, registered nurse, at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington, on February 11. or Robin Addison, January 20 was like any other Monday night. She had just slipped into her pajamas after a long day of work It is only one case. It’s the first person in the at Providence Regional Medical FCenter when, around 8:30pm, she got a world who got this medication for novel phone call from a fellow nurse. “Robin, I think we have to open the unit,” coronavirus, but it seems to have worked she recalls Sarah Wilkerson saying. “The unit” is a pop-up biohazard chamber that can be erected to quarantine someone — Dr George Diaz, Providence Regional Medical with an infectious disease. The hospital obtained it in 2015 with Ebola patients in Center section chief for infectious diseases mind. It had never been used. Wilkerson, the hospital’s infection prevention manager, explained that a ‘ ’ Snohomish County man had tested positive Monday, February 17, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Sometime between January 31 and February 3, the patient was stealthily taken home. The isolation unit has been taken down, the area sterilised. At the hospital on the northern edge of downtown Everett, life goes on for a new coronavirus that broke out late last year in Wuhan, China. He was the fi rst confi rmed case in receiving an Ebola patient. Ebola is Two hours after Addison got and see the patient. when you have two pairs of gloves the United States, and he was on his a serious and often fatal illness. Wilkerson’s call, the biohazard From there, a lot of the work was on, it becomes a whole diff erent way to Providence. Addison and Wilkerson had team had erected the isolation unit. fairly routine. A rotating staff of 20 skill because you’re used to being Addison pulled her scrubs on and led the drill with the hospital’s They’d needed to move patients nurses, three doctors and personnel able to feel for a vein,” Addison said. went back to the hospital. BEST Team — Biocontainment, who were in the designated space from every corner of the hospital Five days in, the man’s condition The novel coronavirus — Evaluation and Specialty Treatment and put up movable walls to create kept the patient as comfortable started to worsen. On the sixth offi cially named SARS-CoV-2 or — which was created after a man a room with negative pressure so no as possible. They took his vitals day, he had to be given oxygen, known by the illness it causes, with Ebola sickened two nurses in a air could escape. regularly. They gave him an IV to and a lung X-ray showed he was COVID-19 — has infected more Dallas hospital. Donning protective gear, the replenish his fl uids. developing pneumonia. than 68,000 people globally and The team of volunteers nurses greeted the patient as he But the gear the medical team After discussions with doctors killed more than 1,666, most of understood it wasn’t likely to arrived in a mobile isolation unit, had to wear made these basic tasks at the CDC and the patient, Diaz them in China, where the outbreak encounter Ebola in Everett, but it’s which Addison described as looking diffi cult. There was the respirator got approval from the Federal Drug began in December. It has spread best to prepare for the worst and like a bigger version of pods used helmet, which came with a plastic Administration to administer an to more than two dozen countries, be able to scale back depending on for premature babies. faceguard. They doubled up on experimental antiviral drug called including the United States, which what infectious disease shows up, Once the patient was in the gloves.